Garden City Elementary School

Garden City Elementary School is an average-sized elementary school in Garden City, Georgia, operated by Savannah-Chatham County. The school hosts 597 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Savannah-Chatham County, which oversees 58 schools and 36,355 students, Garden City Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Garden City Elementary School lists that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 30% Black, 6% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Chatham County as a whole is about 8% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 91% of students at Garden City Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Chatham County (around 74%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Garden City Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.5%, the actual is 31.5%, a residual of +1.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Chatham County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,097 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Garden City Elementary School is one of 60 public schools in Chatham County (combined enrollment of about 36,380 students).

The closest other public school is Groves High School, roughly 1.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Garden City Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Garden City Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 27.8%.

Garden City Elementary School operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Garden City Elementary School has climbed 33%, going from 448 students in 2018 to 597 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 18% to 6% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Garden City Elementary School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.